Known Relatives:
Unnamed father (former king),
Shaitan (brother), unnamed
son

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile
across the Microverse; occasionally USA, Earth

First Appearance: Micronauts
I#1 (January, 1979)

Powers/Abilities:
Acroyear was a very strong warrior, displaying enhanced strength, from
the resilient Acroyear race. His metallic armor augmented these
capabilities and was capable of withstanding extreme heat and a bullet
fired at point-blank range plus proton cannon blasts. He had an
intensely strong sense of honor and rarely expressed pain. Part of his
armament included an energy sword that could cut through almost
anything, as well as anti-gravitational glider
wings that he used with tremendous skill, yielding great speed and
manouvrability. He twice wielded the Worldmind of Spartak, a formidable
power that rivaled the Enigma Force.

History:

(Micronauts#31 (fb) - BTS) - The
Herald Comet (actually the Time Traveler) blazed
over Spartak at Acroyear's birth, signaling to the Acroyear people
that their new king had been born.

(Micronauts I#58 (fb)) -
Acroyear's father, the King
of Spartak, denied his son from having a relationship with Megale. As
the
Crown Prince he was already betrothed to Lady Cilicia, who soon after
also sacrificed her personal feelings for the continuity of Spartak,
both recognizing that their love for each other could only grow.

(Micronauts II#7 (fb)) - Acroyear
led the Acroyear War-Fleet against the Black Fleet attacking Ecbatan.
Acroyear and Illyrie,
his second-in-command and repressed love, uncovered a bizarre
plot led by its ruler, Laios, but countered by Polibos. The
Acroyears were
honor-bound not to interfere until Illyrie was killed by Laios.

(Micronauts I#9 (fb) - BTS) - With
the aid of Baron Karza, Shaitan thoughtwashed his people to ally
themselves with Karza, with only Prince Acroyear able to resist.

(Micronauts I#38/2 (fb)) - Flying
by ship into space
to escape Dog Soldiers, Bug came across Prince Acroyear being held
prisoner by his brother Shaitan, who intended to hand over him over to
Karza and ally the Acroyears with Karza's growing empire. Bug freed the
Crown Prince from his energy shackles and the two fought Acroyear
warriors loyal to Shaitan, escaping in a commandeered spaceship. Prince
Acroyear then declared to Bug his undying friendship.

(Micronauts I#12 (fb)) - Shaitan
was nevertheless able to recapture Acroyear and sold him into slavery
to fight in Karza's arena as entertainment.

(Micronauts Annual#1/3 (fb)) - In
stasis bonds, Acroyear, Bug and many other offworld prisoners
were escorted to holding pens for the brutal Great Games. Later,
training in the yard of the gladiators, Acroyear was targeted by the
Imperial Gamesman and a fellow gladiator, Maccabee, but they were
quickly overcome by Acroyear's strength. Acroyear was then handed his
energy sword by a Shadow Priest. Acroyear and the other fighters were
soon herded into the arena and he destroyed a looming Terraphant and
then a Hornetroid. Despite calls from the crowd for their freedom,
Karza chose to have them fight again. Bug and Acroyear the spotted Mari
(later Marionette), but didn't know who she was except that she was a
member of the underground resistance.

(Micronauts I#1) - Acroyear and
Bug rescued the newly returned Arcturus Rann during a brawl in the
so-called Pleasure Pits (torture chambers and prisons) on
Homeworld, now under the despotic
rule of Baron Karza aided by Shaitan. Soon in the arena to fight as
entertainment, Acroyear and Bug safeguarded Rann and destroyed a
Death-Tank. The three fled from the arena to Rann's ship, the Endeavor,
meeting up with Marionette and Microtron, plus Rann's roboid companion,
Biotron. They all then escaped through a breach in the Spacewall.

(Micronauts I#2) - The team
arrived in Florida on Earth, but locked in miniature form. They
encountered and befriended the youth Steve Coffin, but initially
stunned his pet
dog Muffin. They were suddenly attacked by Shaitan
and Acroyear battle cruisers, who was pursuing his
blood feud with his brother. The Micronauts reboarded their ship and
blasted away with Steve helping to swat away an enemy ship, although
Bug was left behind.

(Micronauts I#3) - The Endeavor
warped into Daytona Beach, but were dogged by Shaitan in a battle
cruiser. Their ship outclassed and outgunned by Shaitan's, Acroyear
suggested going on the offensive, using a back-mounted glider-pac to
attack a fighter craft. Acroyear succeeded in damaging and destroying
several components of Shaitan's craft before the villain warped away.
Soon after, realizing that they were likely trapped outside the
Microverse, Acroyear declared that they should look for Bug.

(Micronauts I#4) - Acroyear and
the other Micronauts
returned to the Coffin residence to find Bug but found it empty. They
then used the smaller Astrostation to look around further.

(Micronauts I#5) - Tracking Bug's
brainwaves to Human
Engineering Life Laboratories (H.E.L.L.), Acroyear helped rip open the
fence into the precinct and they made their way inside where they
across Prof. Prometheus threatening Steve and Ray Coffin. Acroyear
attacked a guard but was too late to stop Prometheus and Ray Coffin
fall into the Prometheus Pit, the link between Earth and the Microverse.

(Micronauts I#6) - The Micronauts
helped Steve Coffin escape from H.E.L.L. and its Humanoid security
guards, riding in a Chevy pick-up truck back to the youth's home where
the took off in the Endeavor. They decided to accompany Steve to his
father's shack in the Everglades. On the way there, police cars pursued
Steve, but Bug and Acroyear, using glider-pacs, helped stop them, with
Acroyear smashing the through the windscreen of one car.

(Micronauts I#7) - Acroyear and
Bug comforted the forlorn Steve until they all learned of the mayhem at
H.E.L.L. on a TV news broadcast, but the Micronauts had to defend Steve
from the approaching form of the Man-Thing. Acroyear slashed at the
swamp creature but was swatted away; he then had to contend with a
nearby
swamp snake which he soon vanquished. Acroyear recognized the nobility
of the Man-Thing.

(Micronauts I#8) - The Micronauts
and Steve returned to H.E.L.L. where they encountered the newly arrived
Baron Karza, now fully sized after linking with Prometheus, battling
the armed forces gathered there. Consulting with Colonel Macey, the
Micronauts attacked Karza directly, but shrugged off their tiny-sized
attacks with Acroyear backhanded away. Returning to the Endeavor, the
Micronauts set off for the Prometheus Pit in a plan to either force him
to follow them, or leave him stranded on Earth without his formidable
resources.

(Micronauts I#9) - The Micronauts
arrived back in the Microverse only to be surrounded by an Acroyear
battle-fleet, which towed them to the Acroyear planet of Spartak. There
the Acroyear people welcomed back Prince Acroyear as king, the
thoughtwash of Shaitan removed when the traitor returned home. King
Acroyear deferred judgment on his traitorous brother and allowed his
fellow Micronauts attend the council-of-war meeting. But Karza was
aware of the shift in the loyalty of the Acroyear people and launched a
full-scale attack on Spartak led by Major D'ark. Acroyear ordered that
the attackers be forced to land while he went to the Crystal Chamber to
wield the Spartakian Worldmind. Taking off his armor, the crystals
formed around him and he became one with the Worldmind of Spartak.

(Micronauts I#10) - The first
Spartakian king to be linked with the Worldmind, Acroyear had Spartak
destroy the opposing fleet, casting rocks, lava and cliffs at them
until victory was secured against Karza's Dog Soldiers. Emerging from
the Crystal Chamber, King Acroyear no longer recognized Shaitan as his
brother, aware that the massive Spartakian losses were due to Shaitan's
treachery. Cheered by his fellow Spartakian soldiers, King Acroyear
silently doubted his ability to rule a warrior race when he desired
peace.

(Micronauts I#11) - The Worldmind
of Spartak followed the Acroyear fleet led by King Acroyear against
Karza and his forces, helping the Baron's physical destruction and
ending his despotic reign.

(Micronauts I#12) - King Acroyear
stood side by side with his fellow visitors as the denizens of
Homeworld cheered, but took his leave as the Acroyear forces returned
to Spartak. There, Shaitan was condemned as a traitor but he instead
called on the Spartakian law of blood-feud. Acroyear accepted this
challenge and
the two were later dropped out in the wilderness to fight, each armed
also with a spherical force hammer. King Acroyear asked that Shaitan
accept
exile, but the albino craved his brother's death instead. Fiercely
pounded, King Acroyear was able to grasp an energy sword and kill his
brother. Justice served, Acroyear saw the Herald Comet flash past.

(Micronauts I#14) - Back in the
royal palace,
Acroyear revealed to Cilicia that he intended to rejoin the Micronauts
and leave ruling Spartak to a more able monarch. Bonded to him, Cilicia
affirmed she would follow him. The two then met and were welcomed by
most of the other Micronauts on the Endeavor, and discovered that Bug
had survived the attack on Karza, joining them with his love, Jasmine.

(Micronauts I#15) - Acroyear
helped the rest of the crew defeat a sudden attack by Antrons that had
been sent by Psycho-Man only to have a dire warning sent from the
master manipulator's starship.

(Micronauts I#16) - The Micronauts
were taken on
board the spacecraft and put before Psycho-Man, who used his Psycho-Ray
panel against them. Acroyear was struck with hate for his beloved
Cilicia, and the two repeatedly and fiercely punched each other until
the sudden arrival of the Fantastic Four (excepting the Human Torch),
but the fighting instead expanded between the two teams, with Acroyear
tackling Mr. Fantastic. This quickly ended when the full-sized Human
Torch arrived after he went through the Prometheus Pit.

(Micronauts I#17) - The Human
Torch's flaming arrival
began rapidly depleting the finite oxygen stores in the worldship,
causing them quickly grow weary or collapse. Rann saved them but
Psycho-Man recovered the fastest and imprisoned each of his opponents
in his Psycho-Manipulator, intending to siphon their emotions to
dominate the Microverse. However, teamwork between the Fantastic Four
and the Micronauts helped them escape, with Acroyear and the Thing each
pounding through the same point of their restraining tubes.
Acroyear then launched a direct attack against Psycho-Man and the teams
escaped in their respective crafts, but lost Jasmine.

(Micronauts I#18) - Breaching the
Spacewall, the
Micronauts landed on Earth again, but did not recognize it as such.
Acroyear consoled Bug on his loss and helped bury Jasmine. They then
left the ship for the robots to repair, with Bug bounding off to be
alone, and rolled off in their Star-Searcher, coming across a furnished
house their size
amidst giant
vegetation. What they considered lifeless mannequins inside were
actually
dolls in a dollhouse controlled by the child Helen Lipinksi. The
Micronauts fought the assembled mannequin and drove back to their ship,
still unaware that they were actually on Earth.

(Micronauts I#19) - Looking vainly
for Bug before going into the Endeavor, the Micronauts saw a
telepathic image of what Bug could see of a malformed insect. They
followed the origins and came across Odd John, who was mutating insects
to make an army and intended to do the same with the tiny team, who
realized that they were back on Earth. Acroyear and Rann flew out and
attacked, but Odd John disabled
their ship, trapping those inside. Acroyear slashed at Odd John, who
then unleashed his mutated insect horde against them, led by the now
monstrously deformed Bug. Shocked, Acroyear was blasted unconscious by
the savage Bug.

(Micronauts I#20) - Marionette
knocked out Odd John, and Acroyear and Cilicia bound him in chains.
They then pursued Bug aboard the Endeavor and fought the mutated insect
horde at a nearby supermarket, but Acroyear was knocked into a
frozen food locker, with ruptured freon gas freezing him in his armor.
Microtron arrived in the Astrostation and rescued the two overwhelmed
Acroyear warriors. Ant-Man's timely arrival and use of his shrinking
gas returned all the insects back to normal, including Bug. Although
separated from the rest of the the Micronauts, Acroyear, Bug, Cilicia
and
Microtron left the scene.

(Micronauts I#21/1) - Acroyear,
Bug, Cilicia and Microtron scoured the local area for their teammates.

(Micronauts I#22/1) - Flying on
the NY state thruway, the small group believed themselves to
be pursued by semi-trailer, with the incredulous
driver blaring the loud horn to get the tiny craft out of the
way, but Acroyear flew out and ripped the truck's bonnet off. This
resulted in the truck careening off into a fast food outlet where a
robbery was in progress by Rodney, the "Best Darned Burglar". Left
briefly stunned on the counter, Acroyear recovered but was shot at
close range by Rodney. Although knocked back and in pain, Acroyear's
armor was not punctured and he retaliated, knocking the burglar back
only to be punched backward himself, falling into the boiling oil of a
chip-fryer. Unfazed and uninjured, Acroyear was helped out and the four
left again in the Astrostation, meeting up with Rann and Marionette.

(Micronauts I#23) - The Micronauts
found their way back to the Endeavor and Biotron. All of
them assisted in the repairs, with Acroyear and Cilicia
attending to the Star-Searcher.

(Micronauts I#24) - The Endeavor
fixed, the team flew
off. The on board computer was activated, but this
allowed Computrex, the so-called living computer, to take
control
and force the ship to Computrex's base. The roboids were taken over
while the rest of the Micronauts flew out and fought off other
technological devices sent to kill them. Acroyear and the
others
watched on a viewscreen the now captive bodies of Rann and Biotron,
held inside Computrex's hardware, until Marionette was able to free
them.

(Micronauts Annual#2) - The
Micronauts arrived in New York for the first time aboard the Endeavor
when Acroyear was
suddenly overcome with
pain and lashed out at
his crew-mates before flying out using his glider-pac to discover the
source of the pain, yet
quickly followed by his concerned comrades. Drawn to Macy's department
store, Acroyear flew in where the Toymaster was manipulating Micronaut
toys, the cause of the real Micronauts' distress. Recovered, Acroyear
fought the animated toys before tackling the Toymaster, who was soon
revealed to be Professor Prometheus. Marionette then defeated the
Toymaster with Acroyear's energy sword.

(Micronauts I#25/1) - In their
quarters on the ship,
Acroyear and Cilicia revealed their emotions for each other and bonded.
However, an attack by the Fixer and Mentallo, eager to gain information
on subatomic space for Hydra and following in anti-grav harnesses, left
the Endeavor encased in a shroud fired by the Fixer, but the Micronauts
retaliated in a fight that forced the two villains to the ground.
Acroyear and Cilicia were encased in a crystal shatter-sphere, but the
two broke free despite the feedback, and they knocked the Fixer out.
The two Acroyears then joined the other Micronauts as Mentallo was
telepathically interrogated and they learnt that Karza had been
resurrected and was now controlling the terrorist organization HYDRA.

(Micronauts I#26/1) - In the
Endeavor, the Micronauts joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fight against the
invading HYDRA forces using glider-pacs, helping Fury and Dugan along
the way, with Acroyear later helping to rip up flooring to trap HYDRA
soldiers The Micronauts rejoined, with new Acroyear warrior
Dagon (actually a Karza agent), only to discover that Marionette had
apparently been
disintegrated, and Karza resurrected with the aid of Shaitan and the
faceless priests, with the villain also imprisoning the Enigma force.

(Micronauts I#27) - Baron Karza
sought personal vengeance against Acroyear and refused
Shaitan's
plea to his brother. Elsewhere, on board a S.H.I.E.L.D.
helicarrier, Acroyear was with the other Micronauts when discussing how
to thwart Karza's planned conquest of Earth, but remained suspicious of
Dagon's ability to traverse the Spacewall. Excepting the roboids and
Dagon, the Micronauts then joined S.H.I.E.L.D. against the
HYDRA
troops and invading Microverse forces, which were arriving
through
Karza's interdimensional transporter at a Florida fun-park, with
Acroyear and Cilicia silencing HYDRA snipers hidden in roller coaster
cars.

(Micronauts I#28) - Acroyear
continued battling,
then joined the others on the Endeavor, discovering that Rann had been
captured by Karza and was silently furious at Dagon for allowing
Biotron to be destroyed. He rejoined the fight, bravely tackling Karza
head on. Feeling betrayed, Shaitan blocked Karza's forces, allowing
only enemy craft through, but Karza remained resilient against
Acroyear. Shaitan then called forth the Worldmind of Spartak
to combat Karza and claim power, but was crushed. Acroyear then took on
the mantle of the Worldmind to stop Karza, fully aware that this would
result in Spartak dying. The two were evenly matched until Queen Esmera
of Kaliklak launched herself at Karza, impaling him on her suicide
sting, weakening the despot and allowing Acroyear to use the last of
the Worldmind's power to blast Karza, apparently destroying him, but
really only suppressing his consciousness with the host body of Argon.
Acroyear considered the defeat of Karza a Pyrrhic victory, given the
incredible losses sustained.

(Micronauts I#29) - Alongside the
surviving Micronauts, Acroyear stood solemnly before the casket of
those friends fallen. Acroyear revealed to Cilicia the terrible price
paid by Spartak and the Acroyear people, but she called him a traitor.
Later, Dr. Leonard Samson helped Acroyear, Bug and Marionette
be shot into the brain of Rann, who had been rendered comatose during
the
battle with Karza. Once inside Rann's mind, Acroyear was confronted by
Nightmare, but affirmed that he felt no guilt about the destruction of
the Worldmind because it had sacrificed itself to stop Karza through
Acroyear. The three "Psychonauts" then defeated Nightmare and revived
Rann before warping back into the Microverse.

(Micronauts I#30) - Overwhelmed
with guilt for
destroying Spartak, Acroyear took leave from the Micronauts and
returned to his now dead world. Amidst the devastation, he spied a
heated crystal from an altar deliberately left by his people and let it
sear the
Microverse hieroglyph for "T" on his
forehead to forever brand him as a traitor to his people, effectively
showing that he had been deposed as king by his own people and was in
exile.

(Micronauts I#31) - Acroyear saw
the Herald Comet
(again actually the Time Traveler) blaze overhead. Wishing to
understand why he had been so fated, he
pursued it in his solo battle cruiser spacecraft.

(Micronauts I#32) - Acroyear
continued to chase the Herald Comet until it suddenly shone much
brighter, blinding him, forcing him to crash into the Homeworld
molecule called Tropica.

(Micronauts I#33) - Blinded and
without his helmet,
Acroyear was stalked and then attacked by a Devil before a Fireflyte
was able to calm the pink beast. The misunderstanding past, the two
Tropicans took him to their city of Mirthria, but he did not understand
the Devils' quest for happiness through a simple game. That night, the
Fireflyte he met earlier restored Acroyear's sight and helped him
access the game, finally seeing how the game was to
be resolved with the release of a prerecorded message from the Time
Traveler and many other Fireflytes, along with the third Key
to
the Enigma Force. Acroyear, Devil and Fireflyte then left
for Dead Zone as
per the message.

(Micronauts I#34 (fb) - BTS) -
Acroyear and Devil
arrived on Aegyptia but were captured and held in stasis shackles by
the Karza-corrupted Argon and his Dog Soldiers.

(Micronauts I#34) - The other
Micronauts arrived on
Aegyptia on their way to Dead Zone and were imprisoned alongside
Acroyear and Devil. Nanotron and Pharoid soon after freed them
and the
Micronauts escaped to confront Argon, and a bloody battle with the Dog
Soldiers quickly ensued until they managed to escape using their
Astrostation craft. Pharoid and his cohorts arrived to stop Argon from
pursuing them.

(Micronauts I#35) - Argon's aerial
forces caught up with the Astrostation and Acroyear flew out using his
glider wings, deflecting proton cannon blasts and destroying the
attacking craft alongside Marionette, Bug and Devil. They managed to
escape to Dead Zone, finding Dr. Strange there, and were about to use
the three Keys to the Enigma Force to unlock the crypt of Wayfinder
when Argon arrived with his Dog Soldiers and Death Squad, comprised of
Ampzilla, Battleaxe, Centauria and Lobros. Battleax attacked Acroyear,
but although disarmed by him, the Spartakian still overcame his foe and
hurled him against Ampzilla. Meanwhile, Rann unlocked the crypt and
used the Enigma Force to heal the Spacewall. Enraged, Argon declared
the Micronauts outlaws and traitors as the team fled in their spaceship.

(Micronauts I#36) - The Death
Squad, recovered and now joined by Repto and Antron, pursued the
Micronauts to Earth and both spaceships crashed into a nearby primary
school. The teams split again to battle each other, with Acroyear again
up against Battleaxe, until finally ripping his opponent's armor off to
reveal DeGrayde, Argon's chief scientist. The Micronauts once more
escaped in their ship, leaving a classroom destroyed behind them.

(Micronauts I#37) - Argon's newly
bioengineered assassin Huntarr attacked the group, with Acroyear flying
outside to rescue Bug. The fight took the ship and Huntarr
into the Danger Room at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, home of
the X-Men, where Nightcrawler was undertaking repairs. Acroyear and Bug
followed in just as Huntarr activated the Danger Room's fight mode.
Nightcrawler sided with the Micronauts and aided their escape outside
the building.

(Micronauts I#38/1) - Bug,
investigating a nest, had to be rescued by Acroyear from an aggressive
bird defending it and the crew made their way back on board the
Endeavor.

(Micronauts I#39) - Seeking to
warp back into the
Microverse, the small ship instead appeared inside a comics shop with
the crew surprised to see a toy figure of Karza, but soon flew out.
Acroyear felt alone but recognized he always had friends in the
Micronauts. Their ship was suddenly attacked by the Acroyear Elite
dispatched by Cilicia from the Microverse and the Micronauts
defended their deposed Spartakian, knocking out many Acroyear warriors.
The odds no longer in their favor, the Acroyear Elite fled back to the
Microverse, although their warp drive had been damaged by Acroyear the
Micronaut. Their own ship damaged, the Micronauts fell into a New York
drain awash with new rain.

(Micronauts I#40) - Acroyear
helped Devil haul the
Endeavor to a safe spot by the sewer's side. Bug, seeking those from
Earth who had traveled to the Microverse, led the team in search of the
Fantastic Four. They quickly befriended young Franklin Richards, who
took them to the
Submolecular Lab where they came across a swarm of genetically
engineered
Antrons dispatched by Argon to eliminate access routes to the
Microverse. Aided by the Thing, they defeated the Antron invasion but
were too late to save the FF's Reductacraft. The Micronauts then left
in search of another way home.

(Micronauts I#41) - Losing the
Endeavor to the
sewers, the Micronauts went to Castle Doom in the Adirondack Mountains
in search of reduction machinery. They broke in and stumbled
into Liddleville,
a miniature village crafted by the Puppet Master but taken over by Dr.
Doom. Seeing the tyranny there and being the same size as the
residents, the group attacked the miniature Castle Doom but were
knocked out by gas and thrown in prison by Doom. There they met the
Puppet Master and escaped, with Acroyear taking on the micro-sized Doom
in a sword fight. Liddleville began to burn and the Micronauts left the
chaos behind.

(Micronauts I#42) - The Micronauts
rested briefly
before Bug left to help a woman in distress, with the rest of the
Micronauts following in the Astrostation. They arrived at a party held
by Janet Van Dyne, also known as the Avenger the Wasp, only to find her
engaged in a battle with Dr. Nemesis, both in their shrunken sizes that
matched the Micronauts'. Marionette and Bug were struck down
by
Dr. Nemesis' shrinking blasts, but he was defeated
by Acroyear, who forced the villain to direct a blast against
himself. However, this also resulted in Acroyear suddenly shrinking and
disappearing
from sight.

(Micronauts I#43) - Acroyear, Bug
and Marionette
shrunk down into the Microverse, falling onto Homeworld, and hurriedly
blended into the crowd to escape notice. However, their appearance was
monitored by DeGrayde who then reported it to Force Commander. Acroyear
soon destroyed the Dog Soldiers sent against them and the three
Micronauts fled to the lower levels to find Margrace and other
fellow who told them of the current situation.

(Micronauts I#44) - Disguised as
religious pilgrims,
the three Micronauts descended into Subzone and challenged the corrupt
Temple of Light, which served the Body Banks. More Dog
Soldiers
appeared and the three battled them fiercely before drawing back to the
rebels' base called Sanctuary.

(Micronauts I#45) - Acroyear and
fellow rebels made
their way into the Body Banks with the aid of the Knights of Neep.
Acroyear and Bug battled Dog Soldiers while the other rebels
freed
many captives. Bug and Acroyear then fought their way even deeper into
the Body Banks.

(Micronauts I#46) - Acroyear and
Bug encountered Prince Pharoid being tortured and quickly eliminated
the Dog Soldiers. They freed the prince but were challenged by
the Death Squad.

(Micronauts I#47) - A furious
fight followed between the two Micronauts and the Death Squad, with
Acroyear also combating newly arrived Dog Soldiers led by DeGrayde.
Acroyear
surrendered when he saw that Bug was about to be killed by Lobros.

(Micronauts I#48) - Manacled but
still in armor, Acroyear swung out with his chains at the Death Squad
until DeGrayde threatened the lives of Bug and Pharoid. Pyrotorches
were then used to strip Acroyear of his Spartakian armor, yet he showed
no pain. The three captives were then escorted into the so-called
Pleasure Pits to be held for the
upcoming arena battle.

(Micronauts I#49) - The three were
later taken out into the arena to serve as entertainment for Force
Commander's wedding to Belladonna (in Slug's body). Armed again with
his energy sword, Acroyear was attacked by DeGrayde's monstrous
Spider-Creature but dealt the
killing stroke. Rebellion broke out from the stands of the arena
with Acroyear, Bug and Pharoid quickly joined by Marionette and
Huntarr. They all watched stunned as Baron Karza in his black armor
ripped apart and stepped out from the white exterior of Argon, Force
Commander, just as Bioship arrived with Arcturus Rann on board.

(Micronauts I#50) - The Micronauts
in the arena once more fought the Death Squad, with Acroyear slaying
Ampzilla before turning to face their true foe: Karza. Margrace led a
charge against the assembled Dog Soldiers, giving the Micronauts clear
passage to the despot. Acroyear quickly climbed to Karza's raised
platform, with the black-armored villain's knocking out Acroyear.
Fireflyte's song served to distract Karza from certain victory over the
Micronauts and teleported them away.

(Micronauts I#51) - Acroyear and
the Micronauts fled from Karza's forces aboard Bioship, but the exiled
king was angered by Rann's decision to run away. Donning spacesuits,
Acroyear Bug and Marionette took the fight outside. Using his sword,
Acroyear destroyed several hostile spaceships and Dog
Soldiers. Triumphant, they beamed back inside but saw the
unbelievable carnage wrought by Karza on Homeworld far away. Hoping to
warn others, they encountered the homeless Acroyear fleet
commanded by Cilicia and were brought on board, with Acroyear seeking
to prove his innocence in trial by combat according to Spartakian law.

(Micronauts I#52) - Acroyear, who
sought peace, was painted in the colors of his tribe before facing
Cilicia, who advocated war. She fought him but he would only block her
blows, refusing to fight the woman he still loved. He was able to grip
her in a tight embrace that cracked her abdominal armor, revealing the
shine of her pregnancy. The duel was halted with the welfare of the
unborn ruler seen as paramount. Acroyear was no longer considered king
and the Acroyear people now chose neutrality. Acroyear was pained by
the loss of his wife and race.

(Micronauts I#53) - Acroyear had
his armor welded onto him by his fellow Acroyears, never flinching
despite the pain, with the traitor brand on his forehead seared off by
a Spartakian elder to signify redemption. Despite the Acroyear people's
newfound neutrality in the war with Karza, Acroyear stayed with his
fellow Micronauts aboard Bioship. Seeking new allies, Acroyear and the
Micronauts traveled to Prisonworld and met Little D, who gave them
mobster disguises, but they were soon attacked by Karza's G-Men.

(Micronauts I#54) - Overwhelmed by
the G-Men, Acroyear and the Micronauts were captured and brought before
the Karza-controlled Tri-Bunal, and sentenced to death. Murder-1 and
Little D helped the Micronauts overthrow the corrupt system on
Prisonworld, eliminating Karza's influence there.

(Micronauts I#55) - On board
Bioship, Acroyear practiced his sword skills against a remote, but was
saved by Bug when the artificial foes generated by Acroyear's
subconscious almost killed him. He later welcomed Huntarr back after
the living weapon's solo mission and declared Huntarr a fellow
Micronaut.

(Micronauts I#56) - The Micronauts
next traveled to Bug's world of Kaliklak, where they were helped by
Treefern to stop the destructive Battle Beetles sent by Karza. Along
with his teammates, Acroyear witnessed the hatching of the new queen of
Kaliklak, Lyca, and soon after welcomed Rann back into the fold.

(Micronauts I#57) - The Micronauts
journeyed to Never-Summer
after discovering another world-killing plot
of Karza from Captain D'ark. There they helped Ojeeg destroy the
Sunscope
weapon and fiercely battled Karza before the tyrant escaped by
phasing away. The team then watched sun and life return to the world.

(X-Men/Micronauts#1 (fb) - BTS) -
The Entity (the dark side of the X-Men's Professor X that
had gained a life of its own) traveled to the Microverse, and
used vast telekinetic powers as well as telepathy to
attack the Microverse, rapidly slaughtering and enslaving entire races.
Acroyear and the Micronauts were forced into an uneasy truce
with Baron Karza to oppose the Entity.

(X-Men/Micronauts#1) -
Investigating the destruction, the Micronauts found the frontier worlds
devastated and battled the Entity-controlled D'arnellians.
However, the Entity then entered the fray, captured the Micronauts, and
destroyed D'arnell, while Karza fled aboard the Bioship.

(X-Men/Micronauts#2) - The Entity
toyed with the Micronauts in the mindscape, forcing them to fight
Weirdlings. In Acroyear's case, the Entity showed Cilicia giving birth
to an albino boy and naming him after his hated brother. The Entity
eventually
bent the Micronauts' wills to its own. Each Micronaut was then
given a costume mimicking that of the original X-Men. When the real
X-Men traveled
to the Microverse to oppose the entity, the relative giant Micronaut
X-Men overpowered them, with Acroyear smacking Nightcrawler down.

(X-Men/Micronauts#3) - Alongside
the other Micronauts and the similarly enslaved X-Men, Acroyear fought
against Karza's Dog Soldiers, forcing their surrender, only for the
Entity to completely slaughter the prisoners. Later, back within a
prison cell on
the world created by the Entity, the X-Men and Micronauts rallied
themselves to again oppose the Entity, despite almost hopeless odds.
Escaping into the catacombs of the
Entity's citadel, Acroyear revealed that he feared the Entity, finally
overwhelmed by the shame and destruction he as king had wrought. The
X-Men and his fellow Micronauts helped him recover and continue.

(X-Men/Micronauts#4) - The X-Men
and Micronauts again joined forces with Karza, and Fireflyte sang for
them a portal through the Spacewall, enabling them to return to Earth,
although they remained at relatively reduced size. They fought the New
Mutants, who were mind-controlled by the Entity in Professor X's body.
Eventually Xavier forced the Entity to flee back to its own
dead body. Fireflyte transported the
Micronauts back to the Microverse, where Karza had been sent minutes
before after having his mind restored to his own body.

(Micronauts I#58) - The Micronauts
returned to Homeworld to find it devastated and Coral dying at the feet
of Karza and his mutated subjects. A savage and bloody fight erupted
until Marionette killed Karza, thereby bringing peace to
Homeworld. Acroyear
let go his armor and donned the robes of a penitent so that he could
better pray for peace. He later joined his teammates, boarding their
new ship, Endeavor II.

(Micronauts I#59) - Unsure of his
new path, Acroyear
practiced his swordplay, answering Biotron's query on what he thought
love was by recalling his forced betrothal to Cilicia. Soon after, all
the Micronauts agreed to depart on a new journey of discovery into the
Microverse.

(Micronauts II#1) - Searching for
peace, the Micronauts set course for Fiame,
but instead found themselves cast into unchartered territory. The team
encountered the Child of the Makers. Not fully understanding what it
was, they explored the small asteroid-like creature, finding themselves
in its gut.

(Micronauts II#2) - Increasing
radiation forced the Micronauts to get out, with Acroyear using his
body to shield them as they escaped. Acroyear refused to leave Huntarr
behind and they helped the newly mutated Micronaut back on board.
Huntarr had taken an egg from within the Child and Acroyear stored it
away as the Child of the Makers launched itself away, its wake casting
the team even further into unknown space.

(Micronauts II#3) - Acroyear and
Huntarr spoke about the latter's transformation before the group
traveled to a nearby planet, which was
actually a Proving Ground for an alien race. Once on planet's
shiny
surface, Acroyear
observed large metallic creatures bound across the landscape
and damage the shuttle before they could leave. Rann
found that the
atmosphere magnified light to laser intensity as it burned off the
creatures but also recognized the immediate danger from the imminent
sunrise. At the last minute, the ship was pulled underground
with Micronauts inside.

(Micronauts II#4) - Safe, the
Micronauts explored the new
technology-rich environment below the surface, with Acroyear guarding
them. Acroyear, Huntarr and Bug battled killer ordnance-testing
machines like humanoid
robots, with
Acroyear using his energy sword to also stop an energy vortex and the
three demolished
much equipment. The friendly Children of the Dreaming Star then
appeared and were astonished at the range of
the Micronauts' forms.

(Micronauts II#5) - The Micronauts
rushed to their
damaged spaceship which had been brought in by the Children of the
Dreaming Star. They were then invited
and taken to
Sphere,
the capital planet of the Children. Acroyear spoke to Rann about his
personal trials. They all saw the splendor of
Central
City and saw a version of himself with Bug's antennae, a
combination created by one of the admiring shapeshifting Children.
The Micronauts were shown the Spiral Path and heard the
Children's origins, how an egg led to the birthing of the Children's
species.

(Micronauts II#6 - BTS) - Leaving
Sphere with Solitaire, Bug imagined Acroyear, along with the other
Micronauts, getting into all sorts of dire trouble without him. He then
resolved to return to them.

(Micronauts II#7) - Acroyear
reflected on his time with Illyrie while talking with a phantom vision
of Cilicia.

(Micronauts II#8) - Arcturus Rann,
Marionette,
Acroyear and Bug became extremely ill from severe radiation
poisoning from their encounter with the Child of the Makers
and were
placed in one of the facilities of the Children of the Dreaming Star,
watched over by Huntarr and guarded by Death Watch minions. The
Children
offered a computer program that would let those dying be more at peace
in their
last hours and they joined for "one last dance". The newly
hatched Prime Being Scion, seeking to help, triggered a change
in Huntarr who then exploded outward, cocooning
his four dying
fellow Micronauts. He then resurrected them, recreating them
as they were in the idyllic setting of the
dance program. Huntarr then morphed back into his normal fanged self
and was welcomed by his regenerated friends.

(Micronauts II#9) - Along with the
other Micronauts,
Acroyear learned more of the Children and accompanied them to the
Dreaming Star, where telepathic linkages were augmented. Acroyear
watched on as Rann, feeling the Pain Wave, achieved communion
with
the Star and was able to make Devil materialize in a distorted form,
with the degraded matrix then shifted to Biotron for storage.
Suspicious of Solitaire, Acroyear joined his team on a mission to
return to Homeworld with the aid of the Grand
Fleet.

(Micronauts II#10) - On board the
Endeavor II,
Acroyear commented that he felt uneasy about returning to his people.
The Micronauts' ship came to a sudden stop at the Spacewall.
The team then ventured out onto the Spacewall. Rann's efforts to pierce
the Spacewall with Marionette were thwarted by the the
giant Time Traveler, and they watched the Enigma Force being
devastate the
fleet. Huntarr and Acroyear helped free the injured
forms of Rann and Marionette from their capsule.

(Micronauts II#11) - Acroyear
piloted the Endeavor
II and approached the Spacewall after the Children's fleet had left,
but
saw an Acroyear fleet led by Cilicia on the other side. Confronting his
shame, he hailed them.
Cilicia
did reveal that they had encountered Breachpoint,
an ancient powerful citadel that pierced the wall, and the two
groups met there. Acroyear and Cilicia confirmed their love for each
other, but that she still considered him a traitor. The Time Traveler
attacked Breachpoint and Acroyear used a royal command override to
order the fleet to retreat before Breachpoint exploded. He
barely managed to escape back on board the Endeavor II, where he
encountered Scion claiming captaincy of the ship.

(Micronauts II#12) - Acroyear
challenged Scion before his fellow Micronauts, but first had to focus
on escaping the blast from Breachpoint's destruction. Scion and
Acroyear then fought fairly evenly until Scion used Huntarr to
morph and smother Acroyear, and the brawl ended. Scion pushed the
Endeavor II through the
Spacewall. Meanwhile, Acroyear still questioned Solitaire's purpose.

(Micronauts II#13) - Acroyear
sought to help the pained Huntarr, who was trying to save Devil's
matrix from degrading any further. Scion told the crew briefly of the
Pain and that they would soon be going to Fiame.
There, Scion had them
investigate a huge ship of the
Wanderers' descendants. Finding metal poisonous,
the Wanderers' descendants reacted violently against Acroyear's armor.
The other Micronauts joined in the fray, eventually finding
the ship's "brain", and with it the three Zodiac Keys that then
appeared.

(Micronauts II#14) - Scion
revealed to the Micronauts that the Zodiac Keys held the codified
origins of life in the Microverse. They
arrived at the planet Aegis
to investigate the Pain Wave and were shocked at the vast number of
refugees seeking to escape the Pain. Later, Scion secretly
caused Bug to
become cocooned and Acroyear tried to free his friend but was
violently repulsed by a force field. Solitaire and Marionette were able
to finally free Bug.

(Micronauts II#15) - Acroyear,
Bug, Huntarr and
Solitaire listened to Marionette tell a tragic tale of her past caused
by the manipulations of Baron Karza.

(Micronauts II#16) - Acroyear
comforted Marionette
that they were all subject to personal guilt of past deeds. They
were suddenly called out to help nearby refugees to stop a
panicked red-headed alien
from launching a starship that was set to incinerate the surrounding
encampment, but the explosion was contained by the
Beyonder. Acroyear was nevertheless suspicious of the Beyonder's
apparently positive intentions. After learning of the Beyonder's
destruction of three
planets to stem the Pain Wave, Acroyear and the other Micronauts fought
Scion, who seemingly perished from the group's combined onslaught. The
Micronauts then left for Homeworld to continue their mission to save
Devil.

(Micronauts II#17) - The
Micronauts arrived at
Homeworld and were shocked to see the devastation worse than before
because of the Pain Wave. They found the teleportation device initially
used by Devil but the Pain Wave possessed him, malforming him into a
giant beast. Acroyear and the others fought Devil, with
Acroyear
holding back so as not to severely injure his compatriot, but was
instead cast aside. He then watched Huntarr generate a special gun that
killed Devil, thereby stopping the Pain Wave manifesting.

(Micronauts II#18) - The Acroyear
fleet had withstood the Pain Wave and arrived
to destroy it. Acroyear readied himself to once more meet Cilicia and
told her of the Pain Wave that still threatened the Microverse unless
Homeworld was destroyed. Manipulated by the reborn Scion, Cilicia
ordered Homeworld be eliminated but this was temporarily
stopped as Acroyear slashed at her armor so that
she could give birth to their son. Acroyear then watched
as the bridges between Homeworld's spheres were destroyed by the
Acroyear fleet. He bade Cilicia farewell and followed Scion
through a teleportation portal.

(Micronauts II#19) - Acroyear
rejoined his fellow
Micronauts on one of Homeworld's spheres and watched as the planetoids
separated. They then saw Solitaire and Scion engage in a tumultuous
battle. The fight ended, Solitaire told the eons-old origins of herself
and the Microverse, but that the Micronauts would have to sacrifice
themselves to save the Microverse. Rann then told them how this could
be achieved using the Prometheus Pit to counter the Pain Wave.
Initially repulsed by the corrupted Pit, Rann helped restore the Pit's
natural function. Acroyear declared that he would be honored if Huntarr
would join him and the two willingly fell into the Pit.

(Micronauts II#20) - The life
energies of the
Micronauts helped heal Homeworld's Worldmind, and Acroyear found
himself in an idyllic setting at a natural pool. Touching it with his
gloved
hand, he could feel his cells swim away to become the new life of
Homeworld, ultimately contributing to proud forests and stalwart
mountains.

(New Mutants I#50) - On a
fringe world planet somewhere far off in space
at M’n’den’s bar, Charles Xavier
passed by the Micronauts Acroyear and Bug near a slave auction pit
after initially going past Rann, Marionette and Fireflyte.

Acroyear's appearance in New
Mutants cannot be 100% confirmed, but the characters there look exactly
like the Micronauts. Maybe the recreation of Homeworld led to the
eventual rebirthing of each of the Micronauts... (well, 3 so far)?
Special thanks to Loki for identifying this
appearance!

That said, Rann, Marionette and
Bug have
since been "resurrected" and officially used, unlike the other
Micronauts. However, being a
licensed character (like
Rom), he is unlikely to re-appear in the Marvel universe for the time
being, at least not with this name and
armor...

Karza had four protrusions that
were chest-mounted cannons, but I'm not sure what purpose the two chest
protrusions served
in Acroyear's case.

Acroyear's name was revealed to be
"unpronounceable" in Micronauts Special Edition#1.

The original Mego Micronaut
toy figure and description, while similar in appearance, is
like a different character as he is aligned against the Micronauts -
likely an
Acroyear soldier, not the
Acroyear.

Prince Acroyear's father was the
former king of Spartak (and was likely called King Acroyear at the
time). He commanded his son as the Crown Prince to forgo his feelings
for another and that he instead marry Lady Cilicia to ensure Spartak's
continuity.